Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 September 1947 — Page 3

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947.

u. s. (Continued From Page One) bors, the article gave what it termed a “partial list of important Germans who are pro-Nazi and Pan-German and are sabn-. taging the Allied program for the elimination of Germany’s war potential. Then follows the names, history and present positions of 21 Nazis who still hold high positions in Germany.^ The limit of space will allow me to mention but three of these: “2. Dr. Ernest Poensgen ‘The spokesman for the German heavy industry, Vereinigtc Stahlwerke and the coal industry has been for more than 30 years, Ernest Poensgen. He is now 77 years old. He was retired in 1943 under the express orders of Hitler in order to use his services in case of the defeat of Nazi Germany. For his • outstanding services to the Nazi cause, he was decorated by Hitler personally with the title of Wehrwirtschaftsfuehrer—the highest decoration given to big Nazi tycoons. Ernst Poensgen founded the International Steel Cartel in 1926. In 1939, Ernst Poensgen, as spokesman for the German heavy industry, negotiated the famous Dusseldorf agreement with the representatives of the British heavy industries, Sir Percy Mills and Sir Andrew Duncan, dividing the world into two spheres foi German-British economic exploitation. Sir Percy Mills was, until recently, the head of the economic division in the British zone. Because of Poensgen’s intimate tie-ups with British heavy industry, he was reappointed head of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke five months ago. Thus, today he is in a position to continue his nefarious work against the interests of peace and in a position to rebuild Germany’s war potential.” Although he was a member of the Nazi Party, he was never denazified, and now heads the reconstruction of Germany’s war potential. . In 1940, before France^s downfall, Poensgen was appointed by General of the SS, Otto Steinbrink, to plan the distribution of the French heavy industry among the German steel magnates.” “20. Anton Pfeiffer. “Secretary of State of Bavaria, he voted for the enabling act which gave Hitler his dictatorial powers, and during the war served in Hitler’s counter-espion-age service. He openly admitted, in 1946, that 63 to 80 per cent of the verdicts rendered by the denazification courts were erroneous. Yet, when his failures and neglect of duty were reported to American officials, the latter said, “Be careful. He is an oldline reactionary, and a strong Nationalist. If you offend him, he might resign.” “21. Minister President Lahr. “The minister president of the North Rhine Province which comprises most of the coal production of the Ruhr is Dr. Lahr, formerly closely connected with the German steel cartel. Dr. Lahr justified the low production of coal in his province on the ground that the total allocation of steel was only 5,500,000 tons per year. Therefore, he claimed that there was no necessity for Germany to produce coal for exports, since Germany is not going to be the blacksmith of Europe as she was before the war.” In introducing the article Rep. Sabath said in part: “After reading this straightforward, hard-hitting statement, which names names and documents its case, no one can any

FIXING UP the NOME Make Most of Shelves

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Spices will take up a lot of room f you are a spice user. Little racks lung on the inside of the cupboard ioors will takb care of this problem md l£ave the shelf open for other, jigger things. Notice the cup rack irt the back of the shelves above? (t has a few small pieces of quarter nch dowelling nailed along the ihelf near the front. This keeps ;he cups from sitting down flat, illowing air to circulate around hem. Cups will not “sweat” when urned upside down on this shpif

longer fail to understand why, in the British zone of occupation of Germany, only 7 per cent of the military potential for war has been dismantled, in spite of the Potsdam agreement. “It will make you wonder, too, if some of the officials of our own State Department have not been unduly influenced by the shrewd and conniving British diplomats who are cooperating with and aiding in the rebuilding of a strong German industry for the benefit of dangerous cartelists. “Read how the Nazi Hitler leaders are being rewarded instead of punished by Great Britain, and placed in the most important positions in the reviving German cartel industries. “The golden thread of avarice which held together the German, British, American, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish and other great monopolies have not been broken by World War II ... . Why are our own American industrialists and financiers so much interested, as Mr. Hoover urges in the re-establishment df German industry? Why are the du Fonts, and others so anxious to cooperate with German industry, and to win over the American military government — and indeed the American home Government—to a policy of industrial rehabilitation and prosperity for Germany? “Can it be that these great interests have forgotten nothing and learned nothing from the holocaust of three world wars that their policy still is one of rule or ruin, in opposition to our Government’s declared policy of establishing and maintaining world peace? Are these vast economic aggregations .... determined once more to give the German cartels the opportunity of precipitating another terrible world war from which our civilization can never Recover? Rep. Sabath concluded his remarks by asking “What are we in the Congress of the United States going to do about this situation?” A very pertinent question, indeed. For more than two weeks everv newspaper in the country has known of this record, but hardly a one of the great newspapers has even mentioned it to the reading public. Why all the secrecy? Can it be that the editors of some of our great dailies are subservient to these international cartelists who are secretly planning to 'have the American taxpayers pay for the rebuilding of German industry for their own private profit? Are the American veterans and taxpayers, who sacrificed so much to destroy German Nazism and German war potential going ’to be maneuvered into further sacrifice for the rebuilding of that which they destroyed? Will our children and grandchildren have to make another great sacrifice to destroy the German war potential which we are now asked to rebuild? Such a course will soon wreck the whole American economy and bring us to ruin.

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Public To Blame for the Profiteering On New Cars

Automobile dealers charged to- ■ months, or if he is forced to do

day that the public itself is to blame for much of the profiteering on new cars, some of which

so, to sell it to the dealer from

whom he bought it.

New York — Commissioner of

are selling at almost 50 per cent Licenses Benjamin Fielding said

WHO ARE PALS (Continued From Page One) Governor Gates, looking not so much like the powerful “Gatestapo” of a year ago. A gang of the “boys”, that is the Republican organization stalwarts who already have proved by their handling of beer and liquor licenses they are not as much interested in good government as in “getting while the getting is good,” called on the Governor the other day. They screamed, threatened and even pleaded about activity in the state policev department, according to current newspaper reports. They asked the Governor that state troopers confine their policing to road patrol work and let the local enforcement officers handle their own problems. That, according to their version, is the way to build an organization and get votes in the forthcoming cities and towns elections. More raids by the state police only served to muddy the water. The Governor, who already had enough organization troubles, will have to use a lot more of his double talk if he keeps his machine clicking for 1948 when he hopes to step into the national Republican picture.

May Hire 50 More State Troopers Indianapolis, Ind. — The addition of 50 new state troopers at an estimated cost of $300,000 was under consideration today by state officials in an effort to combat mushrooming highway accidents. Director James D. Harrison of the Indiana Traffic Safety Committee suggested the increase in personnel of the state police force to augment present highway patrols. He said he would discuss it with state police Superintendent Robert Rossow. Harrison said he already had conferred with Governor Gates and State Budget Director Ross Freeman, whose budget committee must approve such a move. State police executive officer, Robert A. O’Neal, said it would cost $300,000 to train and equip 50 new troopers and pay them a year’s salary. A similar proposal was turned down by the State Legislature last winter. o Fossil bones of a tillodont, a bear-sized animal that lived some 50 million years ago, are now being sought in Colorado and Wyoming.

above the manufacturer’s price Reputable dealers across the nation reported that they were trying to keep new cars out of the hands of profiteers, who resell them at a fat profit. But they said they could do little without pub-

lic cooperation.

A survey showed that state and local law enforcement authorities for the most part were powerless to cope with the lush racket which has sprung up on the nation’s

used car lots.

New car dealers said they were refusing to sell to used car dealers. They said that many of the shiny new models find their way to profiteering used car lots through private individuals who sell them at a profit to the second hand dealers. In Chicago, one case was uncovered in which an individual got his name on seven dealer lists. As sooh as the new cars became available, he sold them to used

car lots.

Spokesmen for the new . • car trade said the public was to blame too, for its willingness to buy at exhorbitant prices. Dealers feared that public good will for the automobile business would be destroyed if the racket contiriued. A survey showed they were taking these steps. Chicago—The Chicago Automobile Trade association pressed a test case to determine whether a private citizen who sold seven new cars to used car lots was required by law to have a dealer’s license. The individual also was investigated for possible failure to pay the state sales tax and federal taxes. City authorities charged 300 dealers with violating a zoning ordinance that requires bi’ick buildings for used car lots offices instead of frame shacks. The Illinois attorney general’s office began a statewide investigation to determine whether state laws were being violated. Some cars were selling at 43 per cent above the standard price. Cleveland—The Cleveland Automobile Dealers association was ready to announce a plan being used by dozens of other cities to combat profiteering. Dealers will require each new car buyer to

that under existing laws the city was powerless to fight the racket, estimated to involve gross profits already totaling $100,000,000. Fielding turned over data gleaned from an investigation to the corporation (city) counsel as the possible basis for an ordinance to restrict prices. Columbus, O.—The Dealers’ association prepared a newspaper advertisement urging the public not to buy new cars at premium prices without first checking the list price With a reputable new car

dealer.

Atlanta, Ga.—Some reputable dealers were refusing to sell cars until the purchasing dealership has bought tags in the purchaser’s name. Dealers said this would tend to keep new cars from sec-ond-hand lots, some of which were selling cars up to $500 above the list price. Salt Lake City—All the state’s franchised dealers were posting list prices in prominent places in their salesrooms. They also maintained master lists of new car applicants and recipients and agreed among themselves not to sell to an individual who bought a new car and resold it within the last

again those little words—‘gangsters’, ‘labor monopolists’, ‘racketeers’, ‘power hungry bosses’ and the like, which the Republicans so freely used to describe you. “And, while we talk about the Taft-Ives-Hartley Act, let us not completely overlook the other contributions to the welfare of the working man made by this Congress. The scuttling of OPA, for which you and I pay every day; the “soak-the-poor” tax program . . . and the failure to pass the veterans’ housing bills. They had no time to raise the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or to pass the Wagner-Taft-Ellender Housing Bill, or to deal effectively with the problems of national health or soil conservation or reclamation. But there was adequate time to exempt the railroads from the anti-trust acts, and to cut the appropriations for enforcing the tax-evasion laws and to chisel on the school lunch program—and, of course, time never pressed when the Taft-Ives-Hartley Act was on the

floor.

“I say that, any hope that the Republican Party can be made even to consider honestly and fairly, let alone progressively, the problems of labor, is the wildest kind of wishful thinkiwg. And every time labor falls into that trap, it comes out with a brokep jaw. The few progressives within the Party, like Wayne Morris of Oregon, have been entirely driven out of its councils. “What of a third party? Every-

six months.

Dallas, Tex.—Dealers said they one knows that before 1948 no

to the cause of labor. When you hear them, check back into the

agree not to sell the car for six i Congressional Record and reqd

were selling only to old customers or veterans who could show a definite need for a new car. Several dealers closed their lists for the present to cut down the backlog. Dealers blamed the new car racket on small town operators who feed the cars into Dal-

las lots.

Milwaukee, Wis.—The governor and his attorney general were studying the case of Milwaukee County Sheriff George M. Hanley, who admitted selling eight new cars early this year. SPEAKER HITS

(Continued From Page One)

the Tom Deweys will vote With the big shots who run the Republican Party. Next year, with an election coming up; there will

be some sweet billings and coo- ‘ pie and not for the few. It is no ings from the Republican corner j accident that the membership of of the sofa about their devotion | die Communist Party declined

steadily from the days of Hooverism during the administration of

Franklin Roosevelt.

third party can prepare its petitions, get a place on the ballot and *egister enough voters, to have a ghost of a show. A third party in 1948 is an act of political suicide for all liberal and progressive opinion. Its only beneficiaries would be the Republicans, who could then nominate and elect the most reactionary candidate the party bosses could find, and the Communists, who know that American prestige at home and abroad suffers rpost under a reactionary administration. The history of the last thirty years, if they have taught us nothing else, should prove that the only effective way to fight Communism is through the adoption of progressive and liberal policies which make for prosperity and stability for all the peo

Celebrate India’s Dominion Status

“And what of the Democratic Party? Why not? In every message to the Congress or to the public, President Truman has advocated a continuation of that progressive course charted by Franklin Roosevelt. The spirit of the New Deal lives on In the Democratic Party. ’ President Truman has . . . remained staunchly true to the principles of his great chief. The overwhelming efforts which he made to prevent the passage of the Taft-Ives-Hartley Act shows where he stands on labor problems, and his veto of the “soak-the-poor” tax bill have shown where he stands on raids on the Federal Treasury for the benefit of the few. For fifteen years the Democratic Party has devoted itself to taking bad laws off the books and putting good laws on them. What the Republicans have done is merely to reverse the process. Now if we would avoid the muddling through which marked the Harding-Coolidge - Hoover era; now, if we would avoid another 1929 and another 1932 brought on by the diminished purchasing power which resulted from the anti-labor policies of the 20’s; now, if we would show the world that America is still the leader in the fight for plenty and democracy and not merely the tool of a few imperialists, is the time to organize for political action. “It is encouraging to see the efforts which all the trade unions, including the American Federation of Labor, are making to get out the vote in 1948. But remember; you must register to vote. To my mind the most dramatic and effective protest against the Taft-Ives-Hartley Act is mass registration of voters. It is about the only right the Act leaves you, but it can be used up to the hilt. If you entire local registers in a body you will catch the eye of the public, and you will set off a small time bomb under that* ear that every politicians holds so close to the ground. Every door bell you ring takes another comma out of the Taft-Ives-Hartley Act. Every neighbor you spend an evening with will be on yotlr side in this fight. Every voter you bring to the polls is taking a lesson in freedom. There is only one way to kill the Taft-Ives-Hartley Act: to drown it in a sea of votes.” i

CONGRESSIONAL (Continued From Page One) at New Albany but is expected to return to his home in Muncie to aid in the campaign for his father and the city Democratic ticket. The Republicans of Muncie have also presented several prospective candidates for Congress as well as have each of the other counties of the district. From Delaware county and Muncie are listed the names of L. A. Pittenger, former head of Ball State college, Joseph Meredith, local abstractor, Mrs. Mary Benadum, G.O.P. vice-district chairwoman, and Judge Joseph Davis. The latter has announced that he will not accept the nomination since he prefers to continue on the bench in circuit court to which he was elected last fall Former U. S. Senator James Watson of Rushville has also been mentioned among the Republicans for the vacancy seat but his 86 years of age seems to be against his being selected. A district meeting of Republicans was held Thursday night at Indianapolis but no candidate will be selected until a later session is held in the district on Saturday at Richmond. The Congressional contest in this district caused by the death of Springer will be looked upon as a test case for favor by the people of national legislation provided by the G.O.P. Congress during the past year. The TaftHartley labor bill which effects restrictions on organized labor and opposed by then) should draw support in this campaign upon the national issues. A lively campaign will sooh be in full swing.

. LONDON, ENG.—(Soundphoto)—Moslems living in London are shown as they attended the raising of the new Pakistap flag at Lancaster House t6 celebrate the granting of Dominion Status to Pakistan and India by the_ British Government. Habib Ibrahim Rahimtobla, the hew Pakistan high cortltniS' aioner to Great Britain, is shown (in white coat) about to raise the flag as others look on.

CHINA REPORT (Continued From Page One) any more financial support to the Chinese Nationalist government. The leaders of the Nationalist government thought to change the American attitude by insinuating that Russia was aiding the Chinese Communists in their war against Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalists. To reappraise the whole situation and get the facts, Truman sent WedemeyCr, who was thought to be a strong proNationalist, to China. If Wedemeyer was a pro-Nationalist when he went to China, his report indicates that his investigation changed his attitude. Wedemeyer not only confirmed Marshall’s rpeort, but went much further than Marshall in criticizing the “defeatism, greed and incompetence” of the Nationalist regime. He did something that Marshall did not do. He criticized the leadership of Chiang KaiShek by saying that “recovery awaits inspirational leadership.” That was interpreted as meaning that in his opinion Chiang would have to be replaced before China could hope for a recovery. He said the greatest need of China is “drastic and far-reaching political and economic reforms.” Another statement in Wedemeyer’s report seemed to criticize the State Department’s foreign policy of endeavpring to stop the spread of Communism by force. He said “It should be accepted that military force in itself will not eliminate Communism.” Shrewd observers believe that this statement merits the serious consideration of our foreign policy makers. It is believed that the incorporating of this philosophy into our foreign policy would reverse the trend which we have

AH Democrats Are Invited To Opening Formal opening of the Democratic city campaign headquarters at 202 Va South Walnut Street will be held Saturday has been announced by city chairman William Connolly and county chairman Oscar Shively. Invitations have been sent to all precinct committeemen and vice-commit-teewomen as well as all city candidates and party workers to visit the headquarters and partake in the coming campaign. State Chairman Pleas Greenlee, Mrs. Edna Bingham, state vicechairman, of Indianapolis and Tenth District Chairman Harry McClain of Shelbyville together with Mrs. Inez Scholl of Connersville, district vice-chairwoman, are all scheduled to be present and take a part in the ceremonies. The city candidates will officially begin their campaigns foi the fall election and party workers will busy themselves with the taking of polls and registrations throughout the following nine weeks. Lester E. Holloway, former city controller and county treasurer, is the -Democratic candidate for mayor ahd will attend the headquarter opening. The twelve city candidates seeking election from the voters on Novemebr 4th oh the Democratic ticket include Holloway for mayor, Edgar Crago for cityclerk, Mario Pieroni for city judge, Joseph O’Neill, Kenneth Raisor and Paul Cooley for coun-cilmen-at-large. The six district councilmen candidates are William Yohler, Bert Owens, Lionel Harmison, Charles Chambers, Kermit Toland and Paul Elsten.

YOUNG WILLKIE ( (Continued From Page One) ity Law School. “In connection with storiei which have been printed to th< effect that I am a candidate foi the Republican nomination foi Congress in the 10th District ir Indiana to succeed the late Rep Raymond S. Springer,” Willkh said, “I wish to say I am not i candidate and have not been « candidate for the nomination. “I do wish to express my deei appreciation to Mr. Charles W Myers, chairman of the RusI County Republican Committee and the other members of th< Rush County Republican organization for the confidence whicl they have expressed in me ir suggesting that I become a candidate. “At this point I want to publicly deny stories which hav< been printed in some of the papers and gossip columns to th( effect that I have political plan; and ambitions. I have no plan; except to finish my legal education and engage in the activ< practice of law.” MERELY A GESTURE Rushville, Ind., Sent. 5.—Th< man who announced Philip Willkie as a candidate for Congresi said today he did it merely as “< gesture to use the Willkie nami in 10th Indiana District politics.’ Charles Myers, Rush Countj Republican chairman, admittec he held no hope that young Willkie could be nominated at a district GOP convention tomorrow. “He wouldn’t have a chance t( be a candidate, I knew that,’ Myers said. Party leaders said the announcement of Willkie’s candidacy revived a seven-year-ok resentment among Old Guard Republicans against Wendell Willkie’s surprise nomination for th< presidency in 1940. “Philip Willkie hasn’t ever lived in Indiana,” said a countj chairman who refused to be identified. “The Willkie family wen Democrats once. Party worker: who have dug the trenches ir Indiana for 25 years are not going to turn over the gravy k Willkie's son.”

County Council Sets New Tax Rate At a meeting of the Delawai County Council, last Wednesda a tax rate of 71c on each or hundred dollars of tax valuatic was established. This establishe rate is 12c over last year’s. The 1948 tax rates are as fo lows: County Tax Rates 1948 19' County revenue $ .47 $ .3! Bohd fund .037 .0< Welfare .203 .15

Total

County tax rate Civil city ______ School city Library Township Township poor - State

.71 Muncie

.59

1948

1947

Inc.

.71

.59

.12

1.71

1.68

.03

1.81

1.61

.20

.12

.09

.03

.01

.01

.135

.07

.065

.15

.13

.02

$4,645 4.18

.465

SALMON PLENTFUL

Seattle.—A near-record total of 1,275,212 cases of canned sj mon, valued at $29,392,876, w delivered here recently from t famed fishing and canni grounds of Bristol Bay, Alas! Average price paid per case f the 1947 seasonal output was $ —above normal, canned salm brokers said. followed since Churchill’s Fultc Mo., speech, and would be a st in the direction of peace.

Moderate Drinkers Live Long Years Chicago, 111. —Moderate drinking cbnsists of a cocktail or two a day, but not before breakfast, a medical consultant said today. The consultant was “called in” by the Journal of the American Medical Association, to answer a doctor’s query. The doctor wanted to know how many drinks a moderate drinker could drink and still stay moderate. The consultant, who was unidentified, cited a report by the late Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins medical school, who said that moderate drinkers live as long as total abstainers. The consultant also said: “For the average, so-called healthy adult, on a good diet, two cocktails or highballs a day would by most informed people be considered ‘taking alcohol in moderation,’ particularly if not taken on an empty stomach before the morning breakfast, and if taken shortly before, during or shortly after the evening meal. “But taken under identical conditions and rate, this quantity of alcohol would produce much higher blood alcohol in a person weighing 100 pounds than in a person weighing 200 pounds.” Another unidentified AMA consultant cited insurance company statistics showing that moderate drinkers were given policies at normal premium rates, while heavy drinkers were considered “distinctly hazardous risks,” with relative mortality of 33 per cent higher than the average of all insured lives. o Comic Books Are Hit By Policemen Indianapolis, Ind. — A blow at bloodcurdling “Comic” literature was taken by the nation’s police representatives today. A resolution condemning comic books “which belittle law enforcement and glorify crime” was proposed at the opening session of the National Convention of the Fraternal Order of Police. Police Chief Chris H. Keisling of Carnegie, Pa., who introduced the resolution, said comic books too long have used police as targets for such heroes as the Purple Avenger or the Green Ghost. “We should act for the nation’s mothers,” he said. “They are helpless to protect thdlr children from the ‘lurid’ booklets through whose books cavort half-nude women.” Keisling said he had no objection to newspaper comic strips, however, where not so many victims were murdered, tortured or maimed. Some 700 delegates were registered for the 28th annual National meeting of the Fraternal Order of Police. The Women’s Auxiliary also met with the group. One of the most important items of business on the convention agenda wa$ a proposal by the Kentucky chapter to establish a Boys’ Town on land acquired at Carnp Breckenridge, near Morganfield, Ky. Chester Fee, Covington, Ky., said he would present the matter to the convention “in the next day or two.” He said the Kentucky lodge had planned a school to house 1,365 boys and hoped the National organization would see fit to assume sponsorship of o Business Is Run By Boys 8 To 11 Chicago, 111. — The sign in one of Chicago’s newest business houses reads: “No cussin ... no smokin . . . no girls allowed.” The “corporation,” which makes little things out of pieces of wood, is strictly modern and operates on a 40-hour week, more or less. The head man makes as much as the fellow who sweeps out and wipes the grease off the doorknob. It’s democracy at work on a small scale, following the utopian blueprint to the last white line. Boss and organizer of the business is Paul Swierkowski, aged 11. His partner-helpers are his brother, Tommy, 8; Sylvester Sikorski, 9; Raymond Dombrowski, 11, Norbert Dambinski, 9, and Howard Rasch, 9. There is no time clock in the basement of the trim little cottage where the boys havd their workshop, but they work regular hours. Starting time is 10 a.m. sharp, except Saturday — 11:15. There is a short time out for a run home for lunch. Quitting time is whenever the boys get tired and vote for it. Majority rules. The signal to begin toil is the “Star Spangled Banner,” which rumbles out of a beat up old victrola. The kids stand stiffly at attention until the stirring windup of “Land of the free and home of the brave.” Theft they unlax, grab hammer, saw and brush and kunckle down to work. The youngsters have sawed out an interesting collection of wooden articles, from tiny toy soldiers to wagons and rocking horses. The specialty is bird houses. Every once in awhile they have a sale and display their wares on decorated orange crates in front of the Swierkowski home, where the shop is. They don’t make much money, but what they do take in goes back into the “business.” With maybe a little sneaked out for ice cream and movie seats for six.